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CAR OOYUPLING.

No. 265,318. Patented 0013.8l 1882.

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BENEDIUT HIOKOK, OF BUFFALO, N. Y., AND JOHN H. PUTNAM, OF TIOGA, PA., ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO ROBERT C. HICKOK, OF BUFFALO, N. Y.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,318, dated October 3, 1882.,

Application filed June 17, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, BENEDIOT HICKOK and JOHN H. PUTNAM, both citizens of the United States, the former residing' at Buffalo, county of Erie, and State of New York, and the latter residing at Tioga, in the county ot' Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Devices forUncouplingCars, of which the following is a specification.

This device is for use with the ordinary d rawhead,links, and pins almostuniversally used on freight-cars, and is intended to be worked with the patent of John H. Putnam (one ot' the present inventors) for a device to couple cars, dated February 28, 1882, No. 254,373.

The invention consists of a light rod sliding in staples or upon links to which the coup ling-pin is attached, combined with a hook or other holding device upon the end ofthe car, which holds the rod in position by sliding the bent end into the hook to keep the couplingpin withdrawn until the bent end is released from the hook, when the pin will fall back in position in the draw-head, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective showing the rod with acurved tongue in connection with the coupling-rod; Fig. 2, a perspective showing the pin with a short chain connected to the tongue and rod; Fig. 3., a perspective showing the rod running clear across the end ot' a car and hung by links or y the end of a freight-car by two staples or eyes,

e e, as in Figs. l and 2, or else hung on short links or chains, c e', asin Fig. 3. Theselinks or staples will give the necessary side movement to the rod when required, the end or ends of the rod being bent down, as shown in (No model.)

Figs. l and 2, for crank-handlesf to turn the rod up by. Usually these rods will only extend part way across the car, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and one of the uncouplers will he at each end of a car; and at whichever side of the car lthe man stands to couple or uncouple he will always have a coupling device at his right hand, and it' in connection, as is intended, with Putnams coupler, one of those at his left hand, so that both can beused simultaneously, if desired, by one man. The rod d is constructed withaprojecting tongue or horn, d', and curved over the draw-head, so as to catch in a ring in the head of thecoupling-pin c; or the tongue d will be shorter and connected bya short chain, d, tothe ring orhead of the coupling-pin, as in Fig. 2, the action and result of both ways beingthe same. When the handlefot' the rod is raised it pulls up the pin c, but leaves the point of it in the drawhead. To hold it there, we supply a rest, g, for

the handle, or usually a hooked piece, li, fastened to the carjust where theinner end of the rod d comes, and which is turned up a little at i for that purpose, and also to prevent the rod being turned too far up and throwing the pin c out as it is arranged, the rod l is shoved by the handlef a little as it is raised, and the turned-up end i engages in the catch h. A slight jar caused by coupling will throw the rod out of catch h, land the pin and rod will drop of their own weight into place.

Fig. 3 shows a variation of the manner ot' connecting the pin cto the rod d. To hold it up it would be necessary to supply a rack or ratchet bar orsome other device. To uncoupie, it operates the same as the others above described. Instead ot' a horn, d', the rod d is so bent as to encircle the pin, and is merely a variation of the projection d. The rod d moves in the staples e for a short distance back and forth across the car end. When the pin is lifted the bent end ot' the rod t' is brought up against the vertical end of the car, and by moving the bar to the right the bent end is engaged with the hook h, whereby itis held up and the pin suspended out of engagement unt-il by ajar or by pulling the rod back the engagement of the hook ceases and the pin will fail back into place.

Te claim- In a car, the unooupiing device described, consisting of the sliding` rod d, having a, oentrnl projection connected with the couplingpin, a hundle,f, abone end und bent end i at the' other, :L connection tothe body of the ear, allowing; lateral movement, and :L hook, h, into which the bent end Iz' is run when the pin is lifted, :ind from which it is Withdrawn when the vCoupling is to trike p1aoe,as herein setforth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto Signed my name in the presenoeoftwosubscribingwitl5 nesses.

BENEDICT HICKOK. XVitnesseS:

M. H. SMITH, FRED A. MARVIN. In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my nznnein the presence of two Subscribing witmesses.

JOHN H. PUTNAM.

Witnesses:

F. H. ADAMS, W. L. LAMB. 

